own

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Adjective

1. Belonging to; possessed; acquired and designated by; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
2. Not shared.
   • When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.
3. Peculiar, domestic.
4. Not foreign.

Verb

1. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
   • I own this car.
2. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
   • The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.
3. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
   • I will own my enemies.
   • If he wins, he will own you.
4. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. To defeat, dominate, or be above.
6. To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
7. To be very good.
8. To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
9. To acknowledge.
   • I must own that I have been at fault all this time.
10. To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
11. To take responsibility for.
12. To recognise.
    • I own him as a son of my own.
13. To claim as one's own.
14. To confess.

Noun

1. A crushing insult.

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